While impossible to show without going into a huge panoramic ... the next two pix show part of what was going on at the mouth. You can see a few of the hundreds of set gillnets in the foreground to hit fish on the incoming tide and the driftfleet working one of the two river channels' outlets further out on the beach.

Late in July, the Coat Guard closed down the set nets in these channels since they had no way in or out of the river ... that in itself seemed to let a few more fish through as a couple could sneak in outside of the highs:





Ann takes day honors with this nice buck ... then she had to go home and help clean the 360 razors they dug before our fishing for the day:



Jerri with her third place fish, a 48.75# hen that just wouldn't stop!



The nets finally came out on the night of the 27th, and wow, look what was in the river the next morning ... Bill with his 2nd place fish at 51.5 pounds, and the 1st place fish (53#) caught just moments earlier aboard Matt's boat. We saw more fish caught in a half-hour that morning that the previous 4-5 days combined!



After we took the fish in to the taxidermist and attended a setnetter's meeting with the ADF&G Commish, Corey hopped on the boat with Bill & Joe for the eve tide. We boated six more kings (all released) and lost a few others and even managed to rustle up a couple of silvers for the barbeque



The last day of the derby saw Amenda in search of a winner ... wasn't meant to be for her, but still a struggle to get this one up:



No heartbreak though as she managed a 70+# off the big river the day before!